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Date published: November 3, 2005 |
The Six Common Mistakes that can make You Ill
by Lena Sanchez
Cancer, heart disease and multitudes of illnesses are rampant throughout the world today and simply from lack of the proper nutrients in our foods making it imperative that daily supplementation of proper nutrients being the key to prevention, but only if you know the ins and outs of supplements! The most important supplements should be minerals first then vitamins!
But there are king size mistakes almost everyone makes in their supplementing and those are;
Mistake #1; Believing the report that was released in April 1999 saying that Vitamin C contributed to heart disease. Studies that were hugely flawed and specifically set up by nay-sayers to convince people that vitamin and mineral supplementation is unnecessary. Look who sponsored those studies and you will find out why they had to slant them to prove their point. The drug companies! If you take proper supplements and stay healthy, you cannot utilize their prescriptions and treatments!
Mistake #2; A near epidemic problem that is wasting millions of dollars and not improving a life is; Not absorbing the vitamins. The most common belief is that taking inexpensive vitamins in TABLET form is sufficient. - I even read a comment from a nationally syndicated physician that said, "Any vitamin would work fine, but wasn't even necessary as our food is sufficient for nutritional health." - What a crock! For one; Many tablet manufacturers use a chemical called DCP as the binding agent to hold all the ingredients of the tablet together. DCP is incapable of breaking down completely in your body, thereby negating the dissolving factor! So how good is that?
You would be amazed at the number of undisolved vitamin tablets doctors and nurses see in patients' stool samples. Nurses in hospitals encounter them so often they named them bedpan bullets! City disposal plants filter out thousands of pounds of vitamins a month and some brand names are still readable... Could these have been useful to whomever took them?
Mistake # 3; is buying cut-rate vitamins. Supermarkets, Pharmacies, health food stores and mail order companies bombard us with advertisements and row after row of vitamins on the store shelves. Which to choose?
Never buy cheap brands without checking them out first. Cheaper brands often contain additives, food allergens, sugar, artificial food coloring and artificial flavoring. Some even contains shellac (of course it is labeled as shellac), chlorine and other potentially hazardous chemicals. Potency and purity are not always what they tout themselves to be. Duke University, in one of their studies, examined 12 bottles of one of the most popular supplement. Most of the samples contained 60% or less of the amount claimed on the label! Numerous other tests have turned up the same problem...
Know that having the exact amount is not going to happen in every single tablet, simply because the manufacturing process isn't exact and never will be, but stick with a company that shows the closest content most of the time! Prescription drugs have tested the same way, so you have to be careful in all things.
Mistake #4: Thinking timed-release formulas are better because you don't have remember to take them as often! Those are not only expensive but also present a problem in dissolving quickly enough to do you any good. Your intestinal tract have areas along its path that's certain nutrition absorption, and timed-release formulas tend to miss those little targeted areas.
Mistake #5: Believing that synthetic vitamins are as good as natural! Almost all vitamins found on shelves in the drug store or grocery store are synthetic. Vitamins C & E are the only purely natural vitamins usually found there and even these two can also be made synthetically, and are! With Vitamin C, synthetic is fine but not as potent. It is not okay to consume a synthetic vitamin E.
Synthetic vitamin E is a byproduct of petroleum products and your body does not recognize it in the same way as all-natural vitamin E. Your body is not an automobile that requires petroleum! Natural vitamin E is identical in structure to the vitamin E your body produces, therefore it is more readily absorbed. This is very important since Vitamin E is a powerful protectant against stroke, heart attack, cancer and a whole host of other ailments.
Strive to take Natural Minerals and Vitamins from Plant or Sea base for maximum benefit, and in either powder, liquid or capsule form!
Mistake #6: Believing that the recommended daily allowance (RDA) is sufficient to assure you stay healthy! Your one-a-day vitamin is not enough. The RDA was arrived at by the government some 50 years ago. When scurvy and rickets were the worry not heart disease, diabetes or cancer. There have now been whole libraries of newer reliable research on what the body really needs to fend off killer diseases from modern day illnesses.
For instance - Vitamin C RDA is a mere 60mg but a UCLA study, for one, proved that people taking 400 mg or more of vitamin C per day were able to cut their heart attack risk in half and an extra bonus, enjoyed an increase of eight years in their average life span! 1000 mg is even better. Smokers and people who consume daily alcohol and caffeine need a minimum of 1500 mg.
Vitamin E RDA is a mere 10 IU. So this is all you get in most one-a-day vitamins. Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas report that Vitamin E supplements in dosages more than 50 times greater than the Recommended Daily Allowance are safe and as effective alone as when combined with other antioxidants in inhibiting low-density lipoprotein cholesterol oxidation. FDA is contemplating increasing the RDA's but only slightly!
Avoid these mistakes and expect a healthy body!
Documentation on the some of the studies mentioned here; found in Dr. Julian Whitakers "Complete Guide to Vitamin Cures - More information can be found at: www.drwhitaker.com
The Six Common Mistakes That Can Make You Ill
© By Lena Sanchez
Meet the author Lena Sanchez's at www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/lena.htm Editor of "Natural Environmental Health & Business Facts Ezine." Subscribe at www.envirodocs.com/newsletter.htm For more secrets to a healthy life that Lena gleaned in her twenty years as a medical office nurse!
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